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3 unusual facts about Iowa General Assembly


Iowa General Assembly

Partisan House leadership includes Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer (R), and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (D).

Partisan Senate leadership includes Majority Leader Michael Gronstal (D), and Minority Leader Bill Dix (R).

L. W. Housel

For Housel’s first thirty years in Iowa (from 1902 to 1932), Republicans dominated the General Assembly and governorship, and the Iowa congressional delegation.



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Iowa's 10th congressional district

It was only after that district elected a Democrat (Merwin Coad from Boone County) and Iowa lost a seat due to the 1960 census that the Iowa General Assembly broke up the old 10th district's counties, dividing them among four districts.